[womeninmed] Reminder: WIMS Book Club - Mon., May 20th at 5:30 PM

[Sandra Jarvis]

>>> Deborah Hermann 5/2/2019 2:38 PM >>> 
>>> "Sandra Jarvis" <jarviss at upstate.edu> 4/2/2019 9:47 AM >>>
>>> Deborah Hermann 4/2/2019 9:46 AM >>>
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Happy Spring and thank you to everyone who came to the March book club.
We had a great discussion about Michele Obama's book.
Our next book is:

Born a Crime:  Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
(304 pages) - more about the book below

DATE:   Monday, May 20, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Location: Deborah Hermann's Home
906 Rugby Road, Syracuse, NY  13203
Only a 7 minute drive from campus!

Any questions - call Deb Hermann at 315-396-7647

Bring: A bottle of wine/non-alcoholic beverage OR an appetizer to share
- or just yourself!

Even if you do not read the entire book - come and join in on the
discussion! No RSVP necessary!

The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times
bestseller about one man*s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of
apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.  Trevor
Noah*s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The
Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a
white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union
was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents*
indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of
his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took
to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away.
Finally liberated by the end of South Africa*s tyrannical white rule,
Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and
freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a
restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he
was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man*s
relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious
mother*his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle
of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own
life.  The eighteen personal essays collected here are by turns
hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on
caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving
car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the
life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his
curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories
weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy
making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only
with a keen sense of humor and a mother*s unconventional,
unconditional love. (Goodreads)

Deb

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